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Today busy with some Policy Based Routing (PBR) routing on an HPE Aruba 3800 series switch.

Situation:

The default gateway is set to 172.16.1.1 which is ISP A a line dedicated for business traffic.

So in the config of the switch

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.1
ip routing

Let’s assume that we have another ISP, named B which needs to used for Office 365 in particular Exchange Online. Of course the best option would be to change the default gateway because Microsoft has a lot of IP addreses which are changing on regular basis. So my advice would be to set the default gateway to ISP B and make a PBR for the things that should go to ISP A. Users of VLAN 5 needs to have this in place.

We start by creating a Class which contains the IP version 4 address for Exchange Online listed on this Microsoft page. The class name is case sensitive, also please not that we can’t use normal subnetmasks (the switch accepts it, but it’s not working) we should use Wildcard masking over here.

Keep in mind that you only can bind one PBR to a VLAN. You can enter again the command service-policy “POL-test” in and give enter, you won’t get a warning but you simply override the PBR. Also you can only set the PBR to incoming packets on a VLAN.